May, 2014

For episode 42, listeners might be hoping that we’d delve into the meaning of life, the universe, and everything… and if your universe consists of deploying and managing applications on Windows, that’s exactly what we’ll be doing! The panel sits down with Steven Murawski, site reliability engineer with the venerable Stack Exchange and Microsoft community MVP to discuss the goings on at Tech Ed last week, Microsoft’s recent open source offerings, new Azure features that are facing down Amazon, and with DSC and Server Core, why it seems Microsoft is really changing the way they develop their server products. Join us as we explore:

Member of an underrepresented group in the tech community? Tell us why you’d like to go to Velocity Santa Clara this June 25th and 26th; send us an email at velocity-santaclara-diversity@theshipshow.com by May 28th, 11:59 pm PDT and we’ll try to help you get there!

In our first ever contest, we also have a Velocity Santa Clara ticket we’ll be giving away; take a picture yourself in the weirdest place you listen to The Ship Show, post it to Twitter, and tag it with the #ListeningToTheShipShow hashtag! Entries for that need to be tweeted by May 31st, 11:59 pm PDT.

Bring up the topic of tech industry recruiting with any developer and you’re likely to get an ear-full: stories of recruiters treating candidates disrespectful, clueless recruiters who don’t know any of the acronyms, recruiters continuing to talk to you even after you’ve asked them to stop… the list goes on and on. In fact, it’s so prevalent, Twitter and Tumblr accounts have popped up just to make fun of recruiters. But why is recruiting so broken in our industry? Are all recruiters like that? And is there anything all of us—companies, recruiters, and candidates—can do to make the experience a bit better (and more efficient!) for everyone? Join us as we put recruiter Sam Whooley through the gauntlet for:

Member of an underrepresented group in the tech community? Tell us why you’d like to go to Velocity Santa Clara this June 25th and 26th; send us an email at velocity-santaclara-diversity@theshipshow.com and we’ll try to help you get there!